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Threatened corals provide underexplored microbial habitats.
PloS one - 5 Mar 2010
Sunagawa Shinichi, Woodley Cheryl M, Medina Mónica
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Contemporary in-depth sequencing of environmental samples has provided novel insights into microbial community structures, revealing that their diversity had been previously underestimated. Communities in marine environments are commonly composed of a few dominant taxa and a high number of taxonomically diverse, low-abundance organisms. However, studying the roles and genomic information of these "rare" organisms...
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